flurry: noun

 a sudden occurrence of many things at once

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Making more Christmas wine tags for the Art MoB, I have been in a flurry of mad crafting this past week and I still have to make the last batch of Christmas cards, you know friends and family, they expect to get cards too! lol

 

 The tag below I am entering in:

 

Frosted Designs - Second Day of Christmas

Die Cuttin Divas - Challenge #94 Holiday Spirit

Little Scrap Pieces - It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

 

 

stamps - so old I haven't a clue ( Santa, champagne glass )

American Crafts - Marvy Marker

Ranger - stickles, Diamond

Ranger - Distress Marker, Antique Linen

Reminisce - white pen

Faber Castell - Pitt Pen

Cricut - Paper Trimmings

recap - noun

also know as recapitulation which means

a concise summary

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Hi everyone out in bloggy land!

We are on week 2 of Handmaking for the Holidays and here is a recap so far:

 

Mellisa - Chocolate Banana French Toast

Heather's - 9 Gift Ideas for Boys

Chrissy - Handwriting Quote pages for Christmas 

 

 

 

My project today is for the Art MoB, Michele requested that I make up some table setting place cards for commission, and this is what I came up with. Two 3-D variations, glittered and non-glittered with 2 styles of handwriting to choose from, a cursive and plain.

Cricut cartridge Winter Woodland

snowman, p. 74, 4"

tree, p. 73, 4"

Ranger's stickles - Star Dust

gems, red fiber - misc.

Faber Castell Pitt Pen

challenge: noun

something that requires thought and skill for resolution

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Over at the Faber Castell blog you can enter the December challenge with Mou Saha for Christmas Greetings. She wrote about doing creative challenges to experiment with new techniques so you can learn new things. THAT'S why I love challenges!! So in the spirit of creating something I've never done before I took out my metallic gelato and rubbed it over the embossing plate before running through the machine.

( note to self: Gelato's stick to and show up very well on the black rubber with my embossing plates! )

 

 I looooovvveee how it came out too! I added some stickles to the center of the snowflakes and followed the sketch from over at Mojo Monday - 270.

 

I took my drip punch from Martha Stewart and trimmed off the drips to sharper points to create icicles, and then covered the strip with stickles.

 

Perfect Sentiments Challenge: Let it Snow

 

Faber Castell Metallic Gelato

Fiskar Embossing Plate - snowflakes

Really Reasonable Ribbon

Reminisce white pen

Pebbles- Glitter Candy Dots

Martha Stewart Drip Punch

Ranger's stickles - Frosted lace

snowflakes..stash, but where did I get them? lol

sentiment - from an old Christmas card
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Today, it's Melissa turn to show a hand made goodie that's close to my heart...errr....stomach and expanding waistline!!! Chocolate Banana French Toast!!!

If you are in need of some fabulous ideas to hand make something for a little boy, Heather has some great ideas over on her blog, hope you go check them out!

And for all you home schooling moms, Chrissy has a cute idea on her blog to get them into the swing of the holiday without them even knowing they are learning something too!

subdue: transitive verb

to reduce the intensity or degree of : tone down

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I am entering this 6 x 12" wall hanging into:

 

Helmars Christmas Color challenge with Numbers ( 450 and Liquid Scrapdots )

Frosted Designs - Christmas Day 1 - Bird

Paper Playtime - Challenge #89 Christmas Colors

Fab 'n' Funky Challenges - #150 Not a Traditional Christmas

 

The background was created with Ranger's ink pads: Picked Raspberry and Worn Lipstick; applied directly to the board from the pad and then embossed with Stamp -n-Stuff: Red Dragon ( gives the background a rough glittery look )

 

 It's not too often that I find a product I am not happy with but I do not like these chipboard letters. The black coating came off just in the gluing process....really? ,They are made by Fancy Pants and I was very disappointed by them. Since they were scraping off I decided to go with the flow and gave them a good sanding to rough them up and then I sealed them with my Golden medium. I glued them down with my Helmars 450 which is perfect for adhering to rough or slick surfaces like the embossed background.

 I really enjoyed using up the numbers from old sticker sheets, GREAT feeling to use them up! I cut the heart from my Cricut: Doodlecharms cartridge, p. 85. After sticking on the numbers I applied a layer of medium and then a piece of tissue over them. ( just to make sure they don't lift off and to subdue them a little )

The bird is cut from the French Manor cartridge, p. 39. Cut from Tim Holtz Grunge paper ( I love cutting images from this stuff, cuts soooooo clean!! ) I used Ranger's ink: Broken China to color in the bird and used American Crafts Marvy marker to color the little pieces.

 The flourish comes from TH grunge board: Elements, which was sprayed with Dylusions: Fresh Lime. I used my Helmars Liquid Scrapdots to lift the flourish up equal to the chipboard heart.

The journaling strips were cut from an old Christmas card and each piece outlined with my Faber Castell Pitt Pen. The entire piece and embellishments were outlined with my charcoal pencils and my Close To My Heart marker.

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This is week 2 of our Handmaking for the Holidays! 

 

If you are in need of some fabulous ideas to hand make something for a litte boy, Heather has some great ideas over on her blog, hope you go check them out!

 

And for all you home schooling moms, Chrissy has a cute idea on her blog to get them into the swing of the holiday without them even knowing they are learning something too!

 

hence: adverb

from this place

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Hello WOYWW stalkers......errr.....visitors!

What's on my desk, you ask? Well, yesterday there were 24 little Christmas Tree table place cards which will hold a dinner mint in each one for the guests of the lady who commissioned me to make them.  I delivered them today to Art MoB for pickup, hence there is nothing on my desk today! 

I had a couple of people ask me last week about the round silver thing off to the right which holds my lamp. It's something you put a cake on to cool after it comes out of the oven, I got mine from a Thrift store for 50 cents. It has an added benefit of holding my stickles upside down while I am working with them.

 

entering my place card boxes in:

 

Die Cuttin Divas: Challenge #94 Holiday Spirit

Cricut cartridge - Tags, Bags, Boxes and More , 1.5"

Fiskars embossing plate - Snowflakes

Ranger's stickles - Frosted Lace, Xmas Red, Green, BabyBlue, Golden Rod

sequins and beads - misc.

Tattered Angels - Glimmer Mists, Pearl

ScorPal - Score tape

Aleene's Tacky Glue

 

Have a great day y'all :) 

evolution: noun

 a process of change in a certain direction

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Hi everyone!

 I am so excited to be a new Design Team member for Try it on Tuesday!!

All their challenges are considered a "anything goes" medium, which I LOVE that freedom to create anything I want!

 

This week we are sponsored by:

They are offering 4 digi stamps from their store so go and play along with us!

 

 

This challenge is called "Let's Get Inky"...couldn't be any better than that, huh? It did get me to thinking about my progressions with ink, In the beginning I used it for stamping only, then I began inking the edges to my mats, which lead to inking embellishments....and then somewhere along the way I began inking everything when I discovered sprays and stains!

Can you remember your ink evolution?

 

So, for this project, I took my Ranger  Distress Inks: Salty Ocean and Broken China and just went straight from the pad smooshing ( technical term ) them across the background. Then spritzed with water and used bubble wrap ( a highly developed tool ) to blend them together.

 

 While my ink back ground was drying I created my chocolate covered earth. ( I think the world would be a better place if it was covered in chocolate, don't you agree? ) The earth was clip art found on the computer, cut out and then painted over with Apple Barrel: Colbalt Blue and Delta Creamcoat: Forest Green acrylic paint. Then I free hand cut a piece of white paper for the chocolate glaze and sprayed it with Ranger Dylusions: Melted Chocolate spray ink. After it dried I covered it with Glossy Accents. ( the tiny bubbles REALLY show up in the close up picture. )

The heart is a Tim Holtz Idealogy grunge board piece that is covered with Distress Stain: Barn Door and I used a Pink Paislee rub on ( the white blotches ) adding with my Faber Castell Pitt Pen the word LOVE. To finish off my wall hanging I used the Distress Stain: Faded Jeans around the edges, doodled a little with the American Crafts Marvy marker in white. Wood beads and twine round off the piece so it can be hung.

So all in all I used 6 different colored inks on my 6 x 12" wall hanging. I can't wait to see what you make for this challenge, after all I know a lot of inky ladies out there ;)

So go join in for some inky fun, the prize for the month of December is from:

bowled over: transitive verb

to impress

( interesting fact: this word was first used in 1867 )

 

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We have had a wonderful week so far, Chrissy has shown us oodles of hand made ornaments to create, Heather has a fantastic tutorial on how to make a biased apron and Melissa supplied us with fabulous ideas to stuff those stockings and I showed you how to make a great girlfriend gift!

 

So now, we are starting week 2 and Chrissy will be showing some Home schooling ideas that includes a Christmas theme! How clever!

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Tag..you're it!
( I use to hate this game when I was a child,  could never catch anybody!! )
But noawadays tags are all the rage, some have as much attention to detail as a card and after you have wrapped those gifts, don't forget to finish them off with a beautiful hand made tag that says..."gee, you are special to me...see what I made for you?"

 

I know a lot of my bloggy friends love to make tags, and you can get inspiration from these BEAUTIFUL Christmas ones by:

 

Anne ( Toy Soldier, and Snow is Falling ) ....from Julie ( Merry Christmas )....from Mel ( Wish, Holiday Wreath, Santa Love, and Peace on Earth ) from May ( Joy, and Christmas Heart ) and from Meggy ( Santa is on his way ).

 

So you have lots of wonderful goodies to look at and get inspired from. Do take a moment to look around their blogs, they make so many wonderful projects, I know I am always bowled over by them!

 

And here are a few of my tags that I sell at the Art MoB:

( on the back of each tag is printed with a "To:" and a "From:" )

 

 Cricut - Stretch Your Imagination, p. 57

hand sewing

Ranger's - stickles

Really Reasonable Ribbon - twine

Reminisce - white pen

epoxy letters - misc.

 

 Cricut  - Stretch Your Imagination p.55

Really Reasonable Ribbon - ric rac, white ribbon

Reminisce - white pen

Tulip - puffy paint

 

Cricut - Doodlecharms p. 127

red pen,googly eyes, trim, cotton ball - misc.

Really Reasonable Ribbon - red ribbon

Craft -T - chalk

Ranger - stickles

entering my gift tags in:

Pan Pastels - challenge #47 Gift Time
Pin and Tack - challenge #4 Anything Goes
Little Scrap Pieces: Make it Sparkle Challenge